Furniture leg-attaching device



April 7, 1931. o. H. BRUBAKER FURNITURE LEG ATTACHING DEVICE Filed May 16, 1930 l z /V d 5 Z 3mm WM atfomwq Patented Apr. 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE OR-A H. BBUBAKER, F RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO MCCORMICK BROTHER-S COMPANY, OF ALBANY, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA FURNITURE LEG-ATTACHING DEVICE Application filed May 16, 1930; Serial No. 452,997.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide leg-attaching means for furniture whereby the legs can be readily attached to or removed from thebody of an article of furniture, so that in shipping the furniture the legs may be packed separately from the body, thus saving space and avoiding breakage. hen it is desired to set up the furniture the legs can be applied in a few moments with 1 a minimum amount of labor.

r a u plate of modified form which is secured to the top of the leg in the same way as the plate shown in the patent referred to is secured; but instead of fastening this plate directly to the furniture body, I provide a 3 526 separate plate which is secured to the body and with which the plate on the leg interlocks. The furniture manufacturer may apply one plate permanently to the body and the other plate permanently to the leg, the legs may be packed for shipment detached from the body, and when it is desired to set up the article of furniture the plates on the legs may be quickly interlocked with the plates on the body, thus saving the time and trouble of inserting screws in the furniture body.

Inthe accompanying drawing,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a leg connected to an article of furniture by the attaching means of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the lower side of the body plate; Fig. 3 is a similar view of the leg plate;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1, showing the plates assembled in bottom plan view; and,

, Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 4.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, of the drawing, a represents the bottom part of the body of an article of furniture, 6 indicates a plate which is secured to the bottom of the bodyuplate will fit againstthese strips, as

article, 0 indicates a leg, and cl indicates a plate which extends across the top of the leg and is fastened to it and which is interlocked withthe plate 6 to secure the leg to the body of. the article of furniture. The plates 6 and dare shown separately in Figures .2 and 3.

The plate I; is of triangular form, having two sides at a right angle to one another, and along these sides are flanges b and b which project at. right angles to the body of thee platefor a short distance, as indicated at '1,

and are thence inclined inwardly over the plate, as indicated at 2, at an angle of about to the plate. Alongits base the platefihas a flange 6 inclined outwardly from thebody'ms of the plate at an angle of "about 30. A

threaded stud 3is'secured to the body of the plate near the flange 6 and about midway of its length, this stud being equi-distant from the flanges b and 6 The .plate is intended to be permanently attached to the bottom a of the article of furniture, at

one of its corners, *andis provided with holes 4 through which wood screws 5-may be passed for securing the plate to the bottom. Where: the furniture body :is made with sides or strips, as a a which depend below the bottom of the body, the flangesb and 12 0f the shown in Fig. 4. a

The leg plate cl, which triangular in form, is fastened to the top of theleg by a studfiand a not 7. Theplatehas side-flanges cl and d extendingalong its rightmngled sides, these flanges being approximately OfTM thesameiheight as the parts 1 of the flanges b and b on the plated). Theedge (l of the plate d is plainandstraight and extcnds'at an angle of about45 to the flangededges of the plate. In the body of the plate cl,=adjacenttheedge d and midway of its length,

is a sloti'S -which extends in the direction of the cornerof the plate where the flangesd and d meet, this slotbeing of sufiicient width to permit the stud 3 on the plated to :pass ll8 freely through it. The plated hasa circular boss d in the center of whichis an opening 9, through which the fastening it screw :6 extends, and the leg hasa circular depression into which theibosspnthe plate fits, aszshown in Fig. 5, these features being the same as in my patent above referred to. The upper end a 01": the leg is square in cross-section, and when the plate cl is applied to the leg, the flanges of the plate fit against adjacent sides of the leg and the stud 6 extends through the opening 9. The nut 7, threaded on the stud, holds the, plate in position. This nut is below the upper surface of the plate, as shown.

The manufacturer of the furnitureapplies the plate 6 to the body of the article of furniture and the plate (Z to the top of the leg. The legs may be packed separately from the body for the purpose of shipment, and when it is desired to apply the legs to the article, each leg is grasped-in the hand and'the leg plate thereon is placed against the body plate with the edge 61 of the leg plate resting on the inclined flange b of the body plate and the stud 3 extending through the slot 8 and the flanges of the leg plate close to and parallel with the flanges b and b of the body plate. By then moving the leg toward the right-angled corner of the body plate, the edge (i of the'leg platewill slide down on the inclined flange b of the body plate and rest at the angle between said flange and plate,-

and the right-angled flanges of theleg plate will slide under the inwardly inclined parts 2 of the flanges on the body plate-and rest to the stud 3 and tightened, andthe two plates thus become firmly locked together.

To remove a leg, the nutlO is taken off of the stud and the leg is moved backward to carry the leg plate flanges from under the body plate flanges, the slot 8 in the legplate permitting of this movement.

What I claim is:

one, a body plate, having along its rightangledsides flanges which overhang the plate ree and having along its third side a flange which is inclined away from the body and having a stud projecting from the body adjacent the latter flange and midway of its length, and the other, aleg plate, adapted to fit between theflanges of the body plate and having flanges on its right-angled sides adapted to fit under the flanges on thexcorresponding sides of the body plate, said leg plate having aslot to receive the stud on the body plate, --said slot being in line with-the right-angled corner of the leg plate.

v 2. Attaching means for furniture legs com prising two right-angled triangular plates,

"one, a body plate, having along its rightangledsides flanges which project at right "angles to the plate and are thence inclined I inwardly over the plate, and having along its-third side a flange which is inclined away 1 from the body and having a stud projecting 'from' the body adj acent'the latter flange and midway of its length, and the other, a leg against theparts 1. A nut 10 is then applied a 

